User Agreement and Terms & Conditions

Last Modified: May 16, 2023

 

1. Introduction

Quadim is a start-up. A platform in the making. Our mission is to be the number one data-driven competence platform where professionals can document their skills and share them on their own terms with their professional networks, communities and companies. We are committed to the user being in charge of their data and that sharing their data is for the benefit of the users. Quadim can thus be classified as a personal data-driven competence system where it is possible to keep track of your own skill development by adding experiences and ratings when they happen so that you never ever have to write a CV ever again.  

These Terms and Conditions constitute a legally binding agreement made between you, whether personally or on behalf of an entity (“you”) and Quadim AS (“Company”, “we”, “us” or “our”), concerning your access to and use of the platform and website. You agree that by accessing the website and platform, you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by all of these terms and conditions.

1.1 Contract partners 

  1. You agree into a legally binding contract by clicking “Signup” or by using Rebel SSO or Google Auth. If you do not agree to this contract (“Contract” or “User Agreement”), do not click “Signup” (or similar) and do not access or otherwise use any of our Services. If you wish to terminate this contract, at any time you can do so by closing your account and no longer accessing or using our Services.

  2. Services
    This Contract applies to desktop.quadim.ai, Quadim-branded apps, Quadim Website which are offered under this Contract (“Services”). Registered users of our Services are “Members” and unregistered users are “Visitors”.

  3. Quadim
    You are entering into this Contract with Quadim (also referred to as “we” and “us”).

  4. We use the term “Designated Countries” to refer to countries in the European Union (EU), European Economic Area (EEA), and Switzerland as the basis of our privacy policy.
  5. If you reside in the “Designated Countries”, you are entering into this Contract with Quadim in Norway which will be the controller of your personal data provided to, or collected by or for, or processed in connection with our Services.
  6. If you reside outside the “Designated Countries”, you will still enjoy the same rights connected to using our services as the residents and you will still be making a contract with Quadim in Norway.
  7. This Contract applies to Members and Visitors.
  8. As a Visitor or Member of our Services, the collection, use and sharing of your personal data is subject to this contract and the Privacy Policy.

1.2 Members and Visitors

When you register and join the Quadim Services, you become a Member. If you have chosen not to register for our Services, you may access certain features under Public Profiles or Public networks as a “Visitor.”

1.3 Change

We may make changes to the Contract.

We may modify this Contract and our Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make material changes to it, we will provide you notice through our Services, or by other means, to provide you the opportunity to review the changes before they become effective. We agree that changes cannot be retroactive. If you object to any changes, you may close your account. Your continued use of our Services after we publish or send a notice about our changes to these terms means that you are consenting to the updated terms as of their effective date.

1.4 User Registration

By using the website and platform, you represent and warrant that:

  1. all registration information you submit will be true, accurate, current, and complete;
  2. you will maintain the accuracy of such information and promptly update such registration information as necessary;
  3. you have the legal capacity and you agree to comply with these Terms and Conditions;
  4. you are not under the age of 18;
  5. you are not a minor in the jurisdiction in which you reside, or if a minor, you have received parental permission to use the website and platform;
  6. you will not access the website or platform through automated or non-human means, whether through a bot, script, or otherwise;
  7. you will not use the website and platform for any illegal or unauthorized purpose;
  8. your use of the website and platform will not violate any applicable law or regulation.

If you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, nor current, or incomplete, we have the right to suspend or terminate your account and refuse any and all current or future use of the website and platform.

1.5 User restriction

As a member or Visitor of the website and platform, you agree not to:

  1. Systematically retrieve data or other content from the website and platform to create or compile, directly or indirectly, a collection, compilation, database, or directory without written permission from us.
  2. Trick, defraud, or mislead us and other users, especially in any attempt to learn sensitive account information such as user passwords.
  3. Circumvent, enable, or otherwise interfere with security-related features of the website and platform, including features that prevent or restrict the use or copying of any Content or enforce limitations on the use of the website and platform and/or the Content contained therein.
  4. Disparage, tarnish, or otherwise harm, in our opinion, us and/or the website and platform.
  5. Use any information obtained from the website and platform in order to harass, abuse, or harm another person.
  6. Make improper use of our support services or submit false reports of abuse or misconduct.
  7. Use the website and platform in a manner inconsistent with any applicable laws or regulations.
  8. Engage in unauthorized framing of or linking to the website and platform.
  9. Upload or transmit (or attempt to upload or to transmit) viruses. Trojan horses, or other material, including excessive use of capital letters and spamming (continuous posting of repetitive text), that interferes with any party’s uninterrupted use and enjoyment of the website and platform or modifies, impairs, disrupts, alters, or interferes with the use, features, functions, operation, or maintenance of the website and platform.
  10. Engage in any automated use of the system, such as using scripts to send comments or messages, or using any data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools.
  11. Delete the copyright or other proprietary rights notice from any Content.
  12. Attempt to impersonate another user or person or use the username of another user.
  13. Upload or transmit (or attempt to upload or to transmit) any material that acts as a passive or active information collection or transmission mechanism, including without limitation, cleat graphics interchange formats (“gifs”), 1x1 pixels, web bugs, cookies, or other similar devices (something referred to as “spyware” or “passive collection mechanism” or “pcms”).
  14. Interfere with, disrupt, or create an undue burden on the website or platform or the networks or services connected to the website and platform.
  15. Harass, annoy, intimidate, or threaten any of our employees or agents engaged in providing any portion of the website and platform.
  16. Attempt to bypass any measures of the website and platform designed to prevent or restrict access to the website and platform, or any portion of the website and platform.
  17. Copy or adapt the website’s and platform’s software, including but not limited to Flash, PHP, HTML, JavaScript, or other code.
  18. Except as permitted by applicable law, decipher, decompile, disassemble, or reverse engineer any of the software comprising or in any way making up a part of the website and platform.
  19. Except as may be the result of standard search engine or Internet browser usage, use, launch, develop, or distribute any automated system, including without limitation, any spider, robot, cheat utility, scraper, or offline reader that accesses the website and platform, or using or launching any unauthorized script or other software.
  20. Use a buying agent or purchasing agent to make purchases on the website and platform.
  21. Make any unauthorized use of the website and platform, including collecting usernames and/or email addresses of users by electronic or other means for the purpose of sending unsolicited email, or creating user accounts by automated means or under false pretenses.
  22. Use the website and platform as part of any effort to compete with us or otherwise use the website and platform and/or the Content for any revenue-generating endeavor or commercial enterprise.

 

2. Obligations

2.1 Service Eligibility

Here are some promises that you make to us in this Contract:
  1. You’re eligible to enter into this Contract and you are at least our “Minimum Age.”
  2. The Services are not for use by anyone under the age of 18.
  3. To use the Services, you agree that: (1) you must be the “minimum Age” (described above) or older; (2) you will only have one Quadim account, which must be in your real name; and (3) you are not already restricted by Quadim from using the Services. Creating an account with false information is a violation of our terms, including accounts registered on behalf of others or persons under the age of 18.

2.2 Your Account

  1. You will keep your password a secret
  2. You will not share an account with anyone else and will follow our rules and the law.
  3. Members are account holders. You agree to: (1) use a strong password and keep it confidential; and follow the law and our list of Dos and Don’ts. You are responsible for anything that happens through your account unless you close it or report misuse.
  4. As between you and others (including your employer), your account belongs to you. This also applies if you got access to Quadim as part of your business using Quadim paid network products and services.

2.3 Payment and Paid Services

  1. Businesses and other legal entities can order access to the paid network products and add-ons/powerpacks by contacting Quadim sales.
  2. The first 3 months are free and the creator/orderer of any paid products will have to be verified by the administration team for continued use beyond the first 3 months and be subject to its own terms and conditions.  
  3. New contracts will be issued between the legal entity and Quadim.

2.4 Notices and Messages 

  1. You’re okay with us providing notices and messages to you through our platform, apps, and email. If your contact information is out of date, you may miss out on important notices.
  2. You agree that we will provide notices and messages to you in the following ways: (1) within the Service, or (2) sent to the contact information you provided us (e.g., email, mobile number, physical address). You agree to keep your contact information up to date.

2.5 Sharing & Access to personal information

  1. When you share information on our Services, you decide what to share and what others can see at any time.
  2. Nobody besides yourself has access to your personal information, master data, skill dashboard or scoring unless you share the information in profiles which are then made available to members, visitors and networks.
  3. Information shared through profile data can be made available in certain add-on modules when shared with other legal entities who have access to Quadim paid networks products. The orderers and admins of paid networks products and add-ons represent legal entities and when sharing your information with other legal entities, you are subject to their terms and conditions. You can withdraw your data at any time with such paid network products if you don’t agree with their terms and conditions.
  4. Information in profiles that is shared publicly, by link/QR code or directly with public networks are open for visitors to see, copy and use that information.
  5. Skill definitions that are submitted and approved to the public skill library are made available to all members.
  6. All public skill definitions that are approved will contain a member's name as the creator and they will receive the status of maintainer for that skill definition.
  7. Submitting an update to an existing skill definition in the public skill definition library, means that the current maintainers and Quadim admin will know the name of the submitter of new suggestions.

 

3. Rights and Limits

3.1 Intellectual property rights 

Unless otherwise indicated, the website and platform is our proprietary property and all source code, databases, functionality, software, website designs, audio, video, text, photographs and graphics on the website and platform (the “Content”) and the trademarks, service, marks, and logos contained (the “Marks”) are owned or controlled by us or licensed to us, and are protected by copyright and trademark laws and various other intellectual property rights and unfair competition laws of Norway, international copyright laws, and international conventions.

The Content and the Marks are provided on the website and platform “AS IS” for your information and personal use only. Except as expressly provided in these Terms and Conditions, no part of the website and platform and no Content and Marks may be:

  • copied
  • reproduced
  • aggregated
  • republished
  • uploaded
  • posted
  • publicly displayed
  • encoded
  • translated
  • transmitted
  • distributed
  • sold
  • licensed,

or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose whatsoever, without our express prior written permission.

Provided that you are eligible to use the website and platform, you are granted a limited license to access and use the website and platform to download or print a copy of any portion of the Content to which you have properly gained access solely for your personal, non-commercial use. We reserve all rights not expressly granted to you in and to the website and platform, the Content and the Marks.

3.2 Your License to Quadim 

  1. You own all of the content, feedback and personal information you provide to us, but you also grant us a non-exclusive license to it.
  2. We’ll honor the choices you make about who gets to see your information, however we may use non-personalised metadata from skill definitions and scoring for analytical purposes.
  3. Quadim will not sell your data to third parties or use them for advertising purposes.
  4. When sharing profiles with a legal entity who has paid for Quadim network products and add-ons, you allow that legal entity the right to process your data under their terms and conditions.
  5. You and Quadim agree that if content includes personal data, it is subject to our Privacy Policy.
  6. You and Quadim agree that we may access, store, process and use any information and personal data that you provide in accordance with the terms of the Privacy policy and your choices (including settings).
  7. By submitting suggestions or other feedback regarding our Services to Quadim, you agree that Quadim can use and share (but does not have to) such feedback for any purpose without compensation to you.
  8. You promise to only provide information and content that you have the right to share, and that your Quadim profiles will be truthful.
  9. You agree to only provide content or information that does not violate the law nor anyone’s rights (including intellectual property rights). You also agree that your profile information will be truthful. Quadim may be required by law to remove certain information or content in certain countries.

3.3 Service Availability 

  1. We may change or end any Service or modify our prices prospectively.
  2. We may change, suspend or discontinue any of our Services. We may also modify our prices effective prospectively upon reasonable notice to the extent allowed under the law.

3.4 Limits

  1. We have the right to limit how you connect and interact on our Services.
  2. Quadim reserves the right to limit your use of the Services, including the number of your connections and your ability to contact other Members. Quadim reserves the right to restrict, suspend, or terminate your account if you breach this Contract or the law or are misusing the Services.
  3. We reserve the right, but not the obligation, to:
    - Monitor the website and platform for violations of these Terms and Conditions;
    - Take appropriate legal action against anyone who, in our sole discretion, violates the law of these Terms and Conditions, including without limitation, reporting such user to law enforcement authorities.

 

4. Disclaimer and Limit of Liability 

4.1 No Warranty

This is our disclaimer of legal liability for the quality, safety, or reliability of our Services.
  1. QUADIM is a start-up and a platform in the making. WE OFFER NO REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY ABOUT THE SERVICES, INCLUDING ANY REPRESENTATION THAT THE SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, AND PROVIDE THE SERVICES (INCLUDING CONTENT AND INFORMATION) ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS).
  2. The information provided on the website and platform is not intended to or used by any person or entity in any jurisdiction or country where such distribution or use would be contrary to law or regulation or which would subject us to any registration requirement within such jurisdiction or country. Accordingly, those persons who choose to access the website and platform from other locations do so on their own initiative and are solely responsible for compliance with local laws, if and to the extent local laws are applicable.

4.2 Exclusion of Liability

These are the limits of legal liability we may have to you.
  1. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW (AND UNLESS QUADIM HAS ENTERED INTO A SEPARATE WRITTEN AGREEMENT THAT OVERRIDES THIS CONTRACT), QUADIM, WILL NOT BE LIABLE IN CONNECTION WITH THIS CONTRACT FOR LOST PROFITS OR LOST BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES, REPUTATION (E.G., OFFENSIVE OR DEFAMATORY STATEMENTS), LOSS OF DATA (E.G., DOWN TIME OR LOSS, USE OF, OR CHANGES TO, YOUR INFORMATION OR CONTENT) OR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES.
  2. QUADIM WILL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU IN CONNECTION WITH THIS CONTRACT FOR ANY AMOUNT THAT EXCEEDS (A) THE TOTAL FEES PAID OR PAYABLE BY YOU TO Quadim FOR THE SERVICES DURING THE TERM OF THIS CONTRACT, IF ANY, OR (B) 10 000NOK.
  3. BY SHARING YOUR DATA WITH OTHER LEGAL ENTITIES WHO USE OUR PAID NETWORK PRODUCTS, YOU ARE ENTERING INTO AN AGREEMENT WITH THEM FOR THE USE OF YOUR DATA. YOU ARE STILL IN CHARGE OF WHAT THAT LEGAL ENTITY HAS ACCESS TO THROUGH PROFILE SHARING. YOU CAN WITHDRAW CONSENT AT ANY TIME WITH THE LEGAL ENTITY BY WITHDRAWING ACCESS TO YOUR PROFILE DATA. QUADIM IS NOT LIABLE TO YOU IN CONNECTION WITH YOU SHARING YOUR DATA WITH OTHER LEGAL ENTITIES.

4.3 Basis of the Bargain; Exclusions

  1. The limitations of liability in this Section 4 are part of the basis of the bargain between you and Quadim and shall apply to all claims of liability (e.g., warranty, tort, negligence, contract and law) even if Quadim has been told of the possibility of any such damage, and even if these remedies fail their essential purpose.
  2. These limitations of liability do not apply to liability for death or personal injury or for fraud, gross negligence or intentional misconduct, or in cases of negligence where a material obligation has been breached, a material obligation being such which forms a prerequisite to our delivery of services and on which you may reasonably rely, but only to the extent that the damages were directly caused by the breach and were foreseeable upon conclusion of this Contract and to the extent that they are typical in the context of this Contract.

4.4 Modifications and Interruptions

  1. We are committed to the smooth and secure running of the platform.  
  2. We reserve the right to change, modify, or remove the contents of the website and platform at any time or for any reason at our sole discretion without notice. However, we have no obligation to update any information on our website and platform. We also reserve the right to modify or discontinue all or part of the website and platform without notice at any time. We will not be liable to you or any third party for any modification, price change, suspension, or discontinuation of the website and platform.
  3. We can not guarantee the website and platform will be available at all times. We may experience hardware, software, or other problems or need to perform maintenance related to the website and platform, resulting in interruptions, delays, or errors. We reserve the right to change, revise, update, suspend, discontinue, or otherwise modify the website and platform at any time or for any reason without notice to you. You agree that we have no liability whatsoever for any loss, damage or discontinuance of the website and platform. Nothing in these Terms and Conditions will be constructed to obligate us to maintain and support the website and platform or to supply any corrections, updates, or releases in connection therewith.

 

5. Termination

  1. We can each end this Contract, but some rights and obligations survive.
  2. Both you and Quadim may terminate this Contract at any time with notice to the other. On termination, you lose the right to access or use the Services. The following shall survive termination:
    - Our rights to use and disclose your feedback;
    - Your ratings of others skills. They will though be anonymised on your termination.
    - Skill definitions submitted and approved to the public skill definition library and or organization skill definition library. 

 

6. Governing Law and Dispute Resolution

6.1 Jurisdiction

In the unlikely event we end up in a legal dispute, depending on where you live, you and Quadim both agree to submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Oslo.

 

7. Contact us

In order to resolve a complaint regarding the platform or to receive further information regarding use of the platform, please contact us at:

Quadim AS
Universitetsgata 2
0164 Oslo, Norway
Email: admin@quadim.ai